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I feel like we'll see his house on an episode of Hoarders when he's 70 yrs old he'll have rooms full of post-it notes and playing cards. in the article i got these from he says he also collects other stuff, and the hardest to find are hand-written directions. i wonder why.

(^this piece is bigger, but I can't find a complete shot of it) Items collected & composed by Bobby Puleo Photos by Angela Bootwright

Savannah; about 6 hrs or so from Summerville.

That Mona Lisa is rad. I live in Georgia too, but where he is might as well be the other side of the world.

Dale Chihuly saw this last one at the Victoria Albert in London; and a few others at the BMA. So incredible.

title is mis-leading. if that is a thread to post your own artwork, then lets narrow this one down to 'stuff other people did that i think is interesting, tattoo related or not' does that work better?

Haven't seen a dedicated all-around art thread, and Hogg couldn't think of one either. Tattoo-related or not. Stuff you've done or stuff you like. Hobo Nickels: Appalachian History » Hobo Nickels Coin collectors today consider the hobo nickel a numismatic treasure, a tribute to long- forgotten folk artists who often literally carved for their supper. The Buffalo nickel debuted in 1913, but it wasn’t until the Great Depression struck that hobo nickel carving reached its peak. During this period, buffalo nickels were the most common nickels in circulation. The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source of income, could take one of these plentiful coins and turn it into a folk art piece, which could in turn be sold or traded for small favors such as a meal or shelter for a night. In a community of generally anonymous drifters, two carvers rose to prominence among hobo nickel creators. Bertram ‘Bert’ Wiegand was born in 1880 and carved from 1913 to 1949. He signed his coins by removing L I and Y from L I B E R T Y, leaving only B E R T. He tutored the man coin collectors consider the giant of hobo nickel carving: George Washington ‘Bo’ Hughes (born between 1895 and 1900 in Theo, Mississippi). Bert met the young teenager in a jungle, or hobo camp, along the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railroad line, and Bo’s first nickels appeared two years later, in 1915. Bo carved till about 1980, when he was last seen by his friend of 40 years, Williard Chisolm, in a Florida camp. Life as a hobo took its toll: the rigorous manual labor Bo undertook to survive during the money-tight, poverty-ridden 30s rendered his hands stiff and permanently damaged. Frequent beatings by ruthless detectives prowling railroads (where many hobos resided) in search of freeloaders and thieves compounded his dexterity impairment. Nevertheless, devoted to his craft, Bo worked through the pain and frustrating impediments throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, but in 1957, while he was working on a nickel, his chisel suddenly slipped and struck his hand. The injury forced the once-great hobo nickel engraver to resort to a haphazard punching method. Bo continued his work, but with less frequency and diminished quality, and as America moved into the post-war era genuine hobo nickels became a thing of the past. The U.S. Mint ceased striking Buffalo nickels in 1938. Skull Nickels: Skull Nickels | Colossal A number of Hobo Nickel artists etched away the flesh of the subject to reveal these awesomely macabre skulls.

awesome. artist?

Poorly done imitations; hahaha Jeremy had found 2 others but they are months back in his FB wall and I dont feel like searching forever.

Point well taken Deb, thank you.

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here by pointing out that Greg Irons had barely any tattoos. I would've been tattooed by him in a heartbeat.

sex sells. no offense intended, but this is not a question anyone should need to ask.

What's amazing is how many bad copies of that tattoo I/we have all seen. I think Jeremy has found at least 3.

He would recommend Horizakura from Adorned. Seconded by myself.

That shit did look cool though.

that frankenstein is unfadeable

I have decent size tattoos on both feet and I still had to wear socks & shoes and they healed up fine. No holidays or anything. I didnt do any ice or elevated feet or anything, but everybody's different.

Ah this is good to know. Thank you.

I'm not 100% positive on this, but I think that the type of light used to lighten tattoos is a different spectrum than hair removal, which might mean it won't hurt tattoos? Karl from Jinxproof is on this forum and would probably have real knowledge on the subject.

IMO As long as you're white and don't all day in the sun its almost all the same. I tattoo people with shitty diets and good diets and different occupations and i don't notice much difference unless you spend a lot of time in the sun or if you're olive-y skinned. But thats only my experience.

This thread could also be called 'Most pain in the ass spots to tattoo'

i'm thinking that 'western' sleeves were happening before the late 80s.

have fun man. it's a great show.

this is a good question and i have no idea. interested to see if anyone has knowledge jewels on this.

Actually I've seen this all too often. I am on the exact same page as about 99% of everybody here when we say hand before sleeve is NAGL. I didn't do that, and tell any client the same. However.... That having been said, I do need to point out that up until a certain point (maybe 25-30 yrs ago? you know, the 'great old time era') a hand tattoo before a sleeve was not uncommon. If anything, a sleeve was what was uncommon. Just for quick example, look at the Marlboro ad Clay posted in the Old Tattoo Photo thread(yeah he has a jacket on but there are a few other Marlboro ads where you can see the rest of the arm). As well as half the pics i've seen of sailors getting tattooed. Tattoo on a hand was much more common that a sleeve. Yes, this is 50 - 60 years later; But as we can all see, almost half the people in our craft seem to think it's still 1940 haha. Not trying to completely derail this thread. Just an observation.